Selected Writings

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By Meister Eckhart

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Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart offers a profound insight into mystical theology and philosophy. This collection highlights Eckhart's exploration of the relationship between God and the soul, emphasising themes of inner contemplation and divine unity. His essays and sermons invite readers to seek spiritual enlightenment through introspection and direct experience of the divine.
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This collection of writings is likely to appeal to you if you enjoy delving into profound spiritual insights and philosophical musings. With its rich exploration of mystical themes and deep reflections on faith and the divine, it offers a unique perspective that can enlighten and inspire spiritual seekers and those interested in medieval Christian thought.

Selected Writings

This is a selection of the writings of Meister Eckhart, the great German mystic, whose writings are among the most influential statements in the Christian tradition concerning the nature of the contemplative life and the soul's possibilities of unmediated union with God.

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Influential writings on the possibility of synthesising Greek thought and Christian faith.

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness—the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided—with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language.

Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.

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ISBN: 9780140433432

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 August 1994

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Introduction by Prof. Oliver Davies
Translated by Prof. Oliver Davies

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 248g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Johannes Eckhart, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was born near Gotha in eastern Germany around 1260. He had an illustrious career in the Dominican Order, teaching all over Europe including Saxony, Bohemia and Paris. He is one of the great speculative mystics of Western Europe, who sougth to reconcile traditional Christian belief with transcendental metaphysics. He was accused of heretical teaching in his lifetime, but is seen today as a foremost exponent of Christian philosophical theology. He died in 1327/8. Oliver Davies is senior lecturer in theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.